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A former dive shop owner convicted of killing his wife on a Caribbean scuba outing in 1999 was sentenced Tuesday to 25 years in prison for what prosecutors called a near-perfect crime motivated by his desire to pursue another woman.
A U.S. man faces life in a sweltering Caribbean prison after a jury convicted him of drowning his wife during a scuba-diving trip a decade ago in what prosecutors called a near perfect murder.
A Rhode Island man accused of killing his wife during a 1999 scuba diving trip testified Thursday that he spent part of her inheritance on courting another woman and taking her on a cruise.
A scuba instructor has been charged with criminally negligent homicide in a student's death, accused of failing to properly supervise the man's ascent from the bottom of a pool during a class, a prosecutor said Tuesday.
Whales may share our kind of intelligence, researchers say after discovering brain cells previously found only in humans and other primates.
Vestimentiferan worms - a type of tube worm widely seen at the methane seeps - were sampled from the "Builder's Pencil" site. Builder’s Pencil, which covers 180,000 square metres, is one of the largest seep sites in the world (Image: NOAA/NIWA)
Rubber tyres, the kind that lie at the bottom of rivers and at the back of junkyards the world over, could be ideal water filters says an environmental engineer at Penn State university in the US.
Japanese researchers said Sunday that a bottlenose dolphin captured last month has an extra set of fins that could be the remains of hind legs, a discovery that may provide further evidence that ocean-dwelling mammals once lived on land.
Researchers fear more than half the world's coral reefs could die in less than 25 years and say global warming may at least partly to blame.
Iceland broke a global moratorium on commercial whaling, killing an endangered fin whale for the first time since the 1980s, local media reported Sunday.
A new survey of coral reefs along Madagascar's southwestern coast found massive damage from coral bleaching caused by rising sea temperatures, researchers said Thursday.
Keeping squabbling children apart is a problem that taxes all parents, but for the grey nurse shark it is a little more serious. Its embryos have a nasty habit of eating each other in the uterus.
British TV executive Jane Root is still learning the peculiarities of the American television market, but she already knows to keep away from the sharks.
David Bright, a leading researcher into underwater exploration and shipwrecks, has died after diving to the site of the Andrea Doria off Nantucket, where he was working in preparation for the wreck's 50th anniversary. He was 49.
The likely world-record hammerhead shark caught in May weighed 1,280 pounds because it was pregnant with 55 pups — the most scientists have ever seen.
The population of an endangered species of dolphin living in Pakistan's Indus River has increased in recent years, but the animal remains at high risk of extinction, the scientist leading a conservation project said Wednesday.
As hundreds of veterans looked on solemnly, the Navy blew holes in a retired aircraft carrier and sent the 888-foot USS Oriskany to the bottom of the sea Wednesday, creating the world's largest manmade reef.
Canadian snowbirds aren't the only northern tourists you might meet at the beach this summer.
Greg Kaufman says his whale-watching boat was doing everything by the book: cruising below 13 knots and staying 100 yards from any visible humpback as a crew member scanned the ocean atop a lookout.
Scientists tried to discover Saturday why hundreds of dolphins washed up dead on a beach popular with tourists on the northern coast of Zanzibar.
The humuhumunukunukuapuaa officially lost its title as the state fish more than a decade ago but is set to reclaim the honor.
David Blaine intends to sleep with the fishes — but only for a week, and in full public view.
A team of American-led divers has discovered a new crustacean in the South Pacific that resembles a lobster and is covered with what looks like silky, blond fur, French researchers said Tuesday.
British holidaymaker discovers lost underwater 'city' Michael Le Quesne, 16, was swimming off a popular beach in Montenegro with his parents and his ten-year-old sister Teodora when he spotted an odd looking 'stone' at a depth of around two metres. It turned out to be a large, submerged building which may have been the centrepiece …
Maldives ministers prepare for underwater cabinet meetingPolitics in the Maldives will sink to a new low later this month, when the nation's cabinet holds its first meeting underwater.
Underwater BillboardsHe has been called the greatest self-promoter in the history of Seattle. And now, more than 24 years after he died at age 79, Ivar Haglund apparently has managed one more fantastic stunt. Underwater billboards that date to around 1954.
Lost diver tells her storyAs countian fought to survive for 7 hours in stormy, shark-infested waters, her mind raced: She prayed. She thought about her family. She wondered about a Valentine. I'm so sick of the phrase, "shark-infested waters".
Why did 2 divers perish in underwater caves?Divers call north and central Florida "cave country" - for the dozens of springs and sinkholes that lead to networks of caverns and twisting tunnels, some hundreds of feet deep and miles long.
Stonehenge in Lake Michigan?The iconic Stonehenge in the UK is one of the most famous prehistoric monuments in the world, but it is not the only stone formation of its kind.
HMAS Brisbane dives | General | Coast news | thedaily.com.auA great article on the HMS Brisbane
Strange looking spider like boat.It might look like something out of a James Bond film but this is could be the ocean cruiser of the future. The WAM-V, or Wave Adaptive Modular Vessel, blasts along on two giant inflatable tubes which, according to its designers, let it 'dance' with the waves. Powered by twin d …
Keyport Museum's Deep-Sea Vessel in Shipshape Form"It's gone places they don't build equipment to go anymore," said Pat Spicer, project leader for Q.E.D. Systems. "It's as interesting as it gets, but it's a huge, huge challenge."
Deep sea divers to repair aquaduct 700 ft below groundAll tunnels leak, but this one is a sieve.
Diving and Exploring Titanic's Sister Ship - the BritannicThis is a link to an article that I found on the BBC about the current state of the massive liner Britannic, which was the larger "sister ship" to the Titanic. The Britannic was sunk by either a mine or a German torpedo in World War I off the coast of Greece.
Padilla: Casey Told Him Caylee Was Handed Off At ParkORANGE COUNTY, Fla. -- Leonard Padilla had his paid scuba divers back in the water searching for Caylee Anthony's body Friday. A day earlier, Padilla's team set off a huge false alarm when they claimed they found bones in the Little Econ River (see map).
European wrecks get digitisedArchaeologists plan to create permanent 3D digital record of wrecks in European waters.
Archaeologists unearth a graveyard of ancient shipwrecks in the Black Sea In the depths of the Black Sea lies a landscape of eternal darkness.
Survivor of U-boat attack is laid to rest in sunken battleship When three torpedoes from a German U-boat smashed in quick succession into HMS Royal Oak in the early hours of October 14, 1939, the result was devastating. Within 13 minutes of the attack, she had exploded, rolled over and sunk - claiming 833 lives.
Navy to christen ship honoring diver Carl Brashear Navy master diver Carl M. Brashear, whose groundbreaking exploits were featured in the movie "Men of Honor" starring Cuba Gooding Jr., will be honored this week when the Navy christens a ship in his name.
This last Sunday, a group of us met up at the Pier in Port Townsend to dive the Wreck of the SS Governor aboard the Lu Jack's Quest, Captained by Phil Jensen. The trip was planned by Ron Akeson, of Adventures Down Under, in Bellingham, Wa.
Foot-Fins Allow Humans to Leap Dolphin-Like From the Water The Lunocet is a hydrofoil for your feet, a kind of swishing fishtail that will propel you through the water like Aquaman. The device clamps on to the feet, which are kept together, and when you kick, the tail flexes.
Venomous lionfish prowls fragile Caribbean watersA maroon-striped marauder with venomous spikes is rapidly multiplying in the Caribbean's warm waters, swallowing native species, stinging divers and generally wreaking havoc on an ecologically delicate region.
Devastation of Pearl Harbour revenge attacks revealed in BBC project 2,000 feet below Pacific | Mail OnlineOperation Hailstorm was two years in the making - but on February 17, 1944, American forces blitzed the Chuuk Islands, in the south western region of the Pacific Ocean, sinking 70 Japanese ships, 270 aircraft and killing close to 3,000 people - though the official death toll has …
The astonishing D-Day tanks found at the bottom of the English ChannelScuba divers searching for hidden treasures at the bottom of the English Channel got more than they bargained for when they stumbled across two massive army tanks on the ocean floor.
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